Miller v. Utah Consol. Mining Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of Salt Lake County, Third District; Hon. Wm. H. Bramel, Judge. Action by Mike Miller against the Utah Consolidated Mining Company and others. Motion for nonsuit was granted as to the unnamed defendants, and from the judgment for plaintiff against it the named defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCorfman, C. J.
This was an action brought to recover damages alleged to have been sustained through negligence while plaintiff was rendering services as an employee in the mine of defendant Utah Consolidated Mining Company. The complaint, in substance, alleged that on September 20, 1916, plaintiff was employed as a mucker to work in defendant company’s Highland Boy mine at Bingham Canyon, Utah, of which the defendant Nelson was the foreman, and the defendant Winther the superintendent, who supervised and directed plaintiff in his work; that on said day the plaintiff was directed to go to a certain stope…
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